Radiator attachment.



PATENTED FEB. 21,- 1905.

E. L. Bo Ts. RADIATOR ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29, 1904.

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RADIATOR ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29, 1904.

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ELIZABETH L. BOTTS, OF BUTTE, MONTANA.

RADIATOR ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,242, dated February 21, 1905.

Application filed February 29, 1904. Serial No. 195,806.

To a whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH L. Home, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Butte, in the county of Silverbow and State of Montana, have invented a new and Improved Radiator Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The purpose of my invention is to provide an attachment to a steam-radiator whereby steam can be conducted to avessel containing an article or articles of food for the purpose of cooking the same or to a bath-cabinet to introduce steam therein with or without medication.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide a means whereby the attachment may be quickly and readily applied to the relief or escape valve of the steam-radiator and as eX- peditiously and conveniently moved without in any wise marring the radiator or interfering with its usual functions.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of the radiator and a sectional side elevation of a receptacle for steam -'cooking and also a longitudinal section through the medium employed for connecting the receptacle with the radiator. Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation of a radiator and a sectional side elevation of a different form of relief or escape valve than that shown in Fig. 1 and also a sectional side elevation of the attachment applied. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the connecting medium shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is an end view of a radiator and a partial view of a bath-cabinet and a sectional side elevation of the medium connecting the radiator with the cabinet.

A represents a radiator, and B a relief-valve therefor, which valve is one which extends horizontally from the radiator and includes a barrel and a casing receiving the barrel, together with a discharge from the casing, and

in Fig. 2 A also represents the radiator, and B represents a different form of relief or discharge valve, wherein the valve after connection with the radiator extends upward and is provided with a seat 10, formed in a cap 11, and in which a rod 12 has movement to and from the cap and is provided with means for seating itself, and thereby opening communication with the cap or closing communication therewith, and in this form of relief or discharge valve B the cap has an opening at its top, which is normally closed by the removable plug.

G represents a vessel in which food is to be cooked, and this vessel is provided with a removable top 13 and with a spout 14: at one side, having communication with the interior of the vessel at a point near its bottom, and in the bottom of the vessel an outlet-pipe 15 is located. The vessel, as shown, is supportedupon a portable table 16, and beneath this table a pan l7.is shown, located in such manner as to receive the drip from the waste or discharge pipe 15, and in the bottom of this vessel C a table 18 is located, supported by suitable legs or a flange a desired distance above the bottom, and in this table within the vessel apertures 19 are prod uced. The meat or other article to be cooked by steam is placed, preferably, in a dish, and this dish is placed on the inner table 18 of the vessel C.

Steam is introduced into the vessel through the spout l4, and the steam enters the vessel at'a point above the table 18 and is brought thereby in contact with the food to be cooked, and the condensed steam will pass down through the apertures 19 in the table 18 and out through the outlet 15 into the pan 17.

NVhen the form of relief or escape valve B is employed, (shown in Figs. 1 and 4,) a connecting device D is used, such as is shown in detail in Fig. 3, which connecting device comprises a main tube 20, having its lower portion 21 tapered, so as to fit snugly in the spout 14c of the vessel C; but the upper portion 22 of this main tube 20 is of the same diameter and is provided with opposing longitudinal slots 23, and these slots receive the casing of the said relief or discharge valve B, as is shown in Fig. 1.

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After the main tube 20 is placed in position a tubular cap 24, which also forms a portion of the connecting medium D, is slipped over the upper end of the main tube 20, and this tubular cap 24 is closed at the top and open at the bottom and is provided with recesses 25 in its under edge, so that it may be passed over the upper'portion of the main tube 20 and rest at its recessed portion 25 on the upper portion of the casing of the relief or discharge valve B.

The arrows in Fig. 1 indicate clearly the course of the steam, which when the valve B is open is admitted into the connecting medium D from the radiator and passesdown continuously into the receptacle C, passing out therefrom in the manner which has been stated. Thus it will be observed that under the construction of the said parts and the connections just mentioned the articles in the vessel C may be cooked by steam without affecting the usual functions of the radiator and may be cooked in the room without escape of steam and without damage to any articles of furniture or a carpet.

When the form of relief or discharge valve B is employed, (shown in Fig. 2,) the connecting medium (designated in this case as D) consists of an upper gooseneck-section 26, which is introduced into the cap 11 of the valve after the plug in the said cap has been removed, and a main-tube section 27, corresponding to the main-tube section 20 of the connecting medium D,is slipped over the lower end of the gooseneck-section 26 and detachably connected therewith in a steam and air tight manner, and that portion. of the gooseneck-section 26 which enters the cap 11 of the valve B is likewise introduced into the said cap in a steam and air tight manner.

The main-tube section 27 of the connecting medium D is that which is connected with the vessel or receptacle 0 in which the cooking is to take place.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated an adaptation of i the improvement to a bath-cabinet E or acabinet in which steam or vapor baths are to be In this view the radiator is designated as A, and the same form of valve B is employed for the radiator as is shown in Fig. 1. The same form of connecting medium D is consequently used in connection with the said valve B; butinstead of the connecting medium D extending downward from the said valve it is carried in a horizontal direction and is connected with atube E, and this tube is carried into the cabinet E in any desired manner. The steam may pass directly from the said valve B into the said cabinet E, or the steam may be medicated before it reaches the bath cabinet. In the latter instance a vessel F, having a removable cap or cover 30, is made to connect with the conducting-tube E, which is then in two sections, and the said vessel F is provided with apertures 31 at opposite sides near its bottom, and collars 32 are made to surround the said apertures, into which collars the sections of the main conducting tube or pipe E are made to enter, and also at one side of the said vessel F, that side which faces the cabinet, another opening, 33, is made near the top, and this latter opening is surrounded by a collar 34, which receives one end of a branch tube or pipe 35, the other end of the said branch tube or pipe being connected in any desired manner with the main or conducting pipe E, which islocated between the vessel F and the bath-cabinet.

The medicating compound or medicating material 36 is placed in the vessel F, the upper portion of the said medicating material 36 being on a line" below the upper aperture 33. When this medicating vessel F is employed, the steam in its passage through the radiator to the bath-cabinet E passes to a great extent directly through the bottom portion of the medicating material 36; but some of the steam passes up through this medicating material and finds an exit from the vessel F through the branch pipe 35 and into the main conducting-pipe E before the said pipe reaches a connection with the cabinet E.

It will be observed that the improvement 7 above described is exceedingly simple, durable, and economic and may be readily and conveniently adapted to a radiator having any well-known form of relief or discharge valve all of the above can be accomplished without in any appreciable manner departing from the usual functions of the radiator through which the source of steam is obtained.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Asteam-conducting medium adapted for attachment to the relief or discharge valve of a source of steam-supply, consisting of a tube having its upper end slotted and of the same diameter for a distance in its length, and its remaining portion gradually tapered, the slotted end of the tube being adapted to re: ceive the discharge-valve of the source of steam-supply, and a telescoping closure for said upper end.

2. The combination with a source of steamsupply and its relief or discharge valve of a conductor for steam, consisting of a tube recessed at its upper end to receive the casing of the said valve and extending beyond it, and a closure adapted to close the open end of said tube and the exposed slotted portion thereof and seat itself on the valve-casing.

3. The combination with a source of steam: supply and its relief or discharge valve, of a conductor for steam, which conductor consists of a maintube of the same diameter from a point above its center to its upper edge, being tapering the remaining portion of its length and provided with recesses at its upper edge to receive the casing of the said valve and extend beyond it, and a cap adapted to fit over the upper edge of the said tube and close the exposed portions of the slots in the tube and seat itself on the said valve-casing, as described.

4E. The combination with a steam-conductor, its relief or discharge valve, and a receptacle independent of the radiator, of a steamconducting medium, means for removably securing the said medium in operative engagement with the receptacle, and means for removably connecting the said conducting medium with the valve of the conductor in a steam-tight manner, as described.

5. The combination with a radiator, its relief or discharge valve and a receptacle, of a conducting medium for steam removably secured to the said receptacle and to said valve in a steam-tight manner, and a vessel located within the steam-passage between the radiator and the receptacle, which vessel is adapted to contain a medicating material, whereby the steam is compelled to contact with said medicated material as it passes to said receptacle, as set forth. I

6. The combination with a radiator, its relief or discharge valve and a receptacle, of a conducting-pipe for steam, said pipe forming a communication between said radiator and said receptacle, a vessel located within the length of said pipe the pipe opening into the lower portion of' the vessel at diametrically opposite sides thereof to cause the steam to pass through the vessel on its way to the receptacle and a branch pipe opening at one end into the main pipe and at its other end opening into the upper portion of said vessel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELIZABETH L. BOTTS- Witnesses T. A. GRIGG, JOHN A. SHELTON. 

